LESOIR – LATITUDE – GENTLE ART OF MUSIC
The Dutch band is back with their fourth album, with artwork that perfectly states what the listener is going to come across, as it is atmospheric, beguiling and with beauty, but one is never quite sure what is happening between the calm surface of the water. I don’t...
MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST – RESURRECTION – NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS
Unless you are of a certain age, it is unlikely that you will have a real understanding of just how important Schenker and his Flying V was to hard rock. His first recording was with Scorpions on their debut ‘Lonesome Crow’ when he was just 16, and he was soon stolen...
NO HOT ASHES – NO HOT ASHES – FRONTIERS MUSIC
This is the debut album from a band who were actually formed as long ago as 1983. They managed to secure some good tours and even signed a record deal in the Eighties, but by 1990 they had broken up and that was the end of it, at least until September 2013 when they...
NOSHIR MODY – A BURGEONING CONSCIOUSNESS – INDEPENDENT
Although born in India, Noshir has been living in New York since 1995, and this exposure to Indian classical music and Bollywood has obviously fused with his love of jazz to create something that is almost timeless and seamless as it flows like a river. Here we have a...
JIM McCARTY – WALKING IN THE WILD LAND – ANGEL AIR
This is the third solo album from McCarty, but he will always be thought of as the drummer of The Yardbirds, the only man who stayed true to that group through all its different versions since they first came together to support Cyril Davies in 1963 (as a side note,...
WE ARE BREAKING THE CHAINS – DUTCH MUSIC WORKS
Originally, the plan by Kristoffer Gildenlöw (Kayak, Pain of Salvation, Neal Morse) was to record a song to raise money for Bikers Against Child Abuse, something he'd done before for other charities. However, the project gathered steam, and eventually Breaking The...
DREAMFIRE – ATLANTEAN SYMPHONY – MINOTAURO RECORDS
In 2014, keyboard player Osirion unveiled the first full-length album from his atmospheric, neo-classical/ambient solo project – Dreamfire. Nearly fifteen years in the making, ‘Atlantean Symphony’ was an exploration of the worlds of myth and legend, a doorway to...
DOKKEN – RETURN TO THE EAST LIVE (2016) – FRONTIERS MUSIC
In the mid-Eighties, I was working in Torquay and went into the local record store looking for a particular album. While I was in there I was incredibly impressed by the music that was being played over the shop’s speakers, so much so that in the end I stopped looking...
Darrel Treece-Birch – No More Time – Melodic Revolution Records
About five years ago I came across Darrel’s debut solo album, ‘Celestial’, reviewed it, and since then we have been in contact on and off. He is probably best-known as being keyboard player in the mighty Ten, but he also works with Nth Ascension and has released a...
Alberto Rigoni (feat. Marco Minnemann) – EvoRevolution – AR Music Prod.
After the release of six albums between 2008 and 2017, Italian bassist and composer Alberto Rigoni (soloist, co-producer of Vivaldi Metal Project, founder of Bassists Alliance Project, ex Twinspirits) is back with ‘EvoRevolution’, an instrumental prog/rock/ambient...
